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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Jul 1, 2020
I know many players have what they often refer to as a set of personal numbers which they exclusively play. To each his own, but for me personally, I'm not a fan of doing that. I'd hate to have not played them only to check the next day's newspaper and see them sitting there staring back at me!
People like to play "birthday numbers" too but as I see it, so does everybody else and as a consequence, a nice fat juicy payoff might get whittled down to next to nothing. Given how hard it is to hit a jackpot, I dont want have to know what it's like to share one with a ton of other people.
I'm strictly a stats guy... That said, this stats guy has never hit a jackpot. Had five or six 4 out of 5's playing New York's Take5, but I've zero experience with a 5 out of 5. I'll be interested to try my luck with Florida Fantasy 5 because it's a little easier to hit than Take5. G5
Yes, you are correct about playing numbers for a long time and then a person decides to quit and play 'new' numbers ... and sure enough they come bouncing out in a few days.
It has happened ... I have read some horror stories over the years in which this has happened. I guess the worst horror story would be after someone has played their numbers for years and then they 'pass away' and the numbers finally show up. The only good thing is that the person doesn't know what has happened.
Here is something interesting with C4L over the last 50 draws through last night. I have a web site that shows the best numbers in the last 50, 100 and 200 draws.
So in the last 50 draws looking at the top 10 numbers ... these six numbers in order are in the top 10 ...
Numbers 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 ... the other four numbers are 24, 29, 40, 50 ... so these are the top ten numbers in the last 50 draws ... how do you play 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 ?
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Quote: Originally posted by Concord on Jul 1, 2020
Yes, you are correct about playing numbers for a long time and then a person decides to quit and play 'new' numbers ... and sure enough they come bouncing out in a few days.
It has happened ... I have read some horror stories over the years in which this has happened. I guess the worst horror story would be after someone has played their numbers for years and then they 'pass away' and the numbers finally show up. The only good thing is that the person doesn't know what has happened.
Here is something interesting with C4L over the last 50 draws through last night. I have a web site that shows the best numbers in the last 50, 100 and 200 draws.
So in the last 50 draws looking at the top 10 numbers ... these six numbers in order are in the top 10 ...
Numbers 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 ... the other four numbers are 24, 29, 40, 50 ... so these are the top ten numbers in the last 50 draws ... how do you play 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 ?
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I'd play #14 for sure because in the last 365 draws it's got 40 hits, in the last 182 draws it's got 21 and in the last 50 draws it's got 8 hits.
Notice too that #40 appears in the top 10 in the last 50 draws. It's the top hitter since C4L began with 88 hits. G5
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Another thing I've noticed is the top whiteball hitter of the month usually has 6 hits. I've seen a couple of months with a number that had 8 and 9 hits, but usually the top hitting number will have 6 hits at the end of the month In June, there were 4 numbers tied for first place with 5 hits (#'s 15, 20 48 & 50)
If you know a number has 5 hits and it's sitting as the top hitter for the month, and it's close to the end of the month - PLAY IT! G5
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July 4th is a terrible day to post here because everybody is busy doing something other than reading The LP, but I'm going to do it anyway.
There's a second number that has recently tied for the biggest hitting number in C4L history and it's #11. In the last 365 draws, it's hit 35 times, and this year it's hit 18 times. Number 40 was the top hitter in C4L, and it looks a lot like #11. #40 has 36 hits in the last 365 draws, and has 18 hits this year.
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Jul 1, 2020
Another thing I've noticed is the top whiteball hitter of the month usually has 6 hits. I've seen a couple of months with a number that had 8 and 9 hits, but usually the top hitting number will have 6 hits at the end of the month In June, there were 4 numbers tied for first place with 5 hits (#'s 15, 20 48 & 50)
If you know a number has 5 hits and it's sitting as the top hitter for the month, and it's close to the end of the month - PLAY IT! G5
Talk about 'hot' numbers or Cash Balls ... I mostly play the 2 and 3 Cash Balls and it's been a rough nine days.
In the last nine days the 1 CB has hit 5 times and the 4 CB has hit 3 times. That '1 CB' will go into streaks like that ... but this time the '4 CB' has joined in.
Since I go with the 2 and 3 Cash Balls it's not been fun ... but someone else playing the 1 and 4 Cash Balls are probably having some good hits.
Hoping that nothing has changed with the drawing. I haven't watched a C4L drawing for some time from NJ ... I hope they are still using 'bouncing balls' and have not gone to computer picks. I have trouble getting the NJ Lottery 'live' or videos to play on my computer, so I don't go there anymore. My computer starts running 'hot' and really struggles to play a NJ video.
I would think if the C4L went to computer picks, there would be some 'news' posted here at Lottery Post.
If they ever do go to a computer pick system for the C4L game then I am done playing the game. If anyone here at LP actually watches the drawing, maybe you could post about the drawing not being a 'computer pick' game in 2020.
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Quote: Originally posted by Concord on Jul 8, 2020
Talk about 'hot' numbers or Cash Balls ... I mostly play the 2 and 3 Cash Balls and it's been a rough nine days.
In the last nine days the 1 CB has hit 5 times and the 4 CB has hit 3 times. That '1 CB' will go into streaks like that ... but this time the '4 CB' has joined in.
Since I go with the 2 and 3 Cash Balls it's not been fun ... but someone else playing the 1 and 4 Cash Balls are probably having some good hits.
Hoping that nothing has changed with the drawing. I haven't watched a C4L drawing for some time from NJ ... I hope they are still using 'bouncing balls' and have not gone to computer picks. I have trouble getting the NJ Lottery 'live' or videos to play on my computer, so I don't go there anymore. My computer starts running 'hot' and really struggles to play a NJ video.
I would think if the C4L went to computer picks, there would be some 'news' posted here at Lottery Post.
If they ever do go to a computer pick system for the C4L game then I am done playing the game. If anyone here at LP actually watches the drawing, maybe you could post about the drawing not being a 'computer pick' game in 2020.
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Just tried to view the latest C4L drawing from the NJ Lottery's website.
I could see the logo screen OK and I heard the music playing with no problem, but that's all I saw and heard! There was nothing else but the logo screen and music for the entire two minutes....
For whatever this is worth; Quite a while ago, so long ago that I couldnt possibly tell you when it was, I saw a live C4L drawing on TV. I think I saw it on Channel 9 out of NYC, but any way, it was a ball machine being used to pick the numbers. G5
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Jul 8, 2020
Just tried to view the latest C4L drawing from the NJ Lottery's website.
I could see the logo screen OK and I heard the music playing with no problem, but that's all I saw and heard! There was nothing else but the logo screen and music for the entire two minutes....
For whatever this is worth; Quite a while ago, so long ago that I couldnt possibly tell you when it was, I saw a live C4L drawing on TV. I think I saw it on Channel 9 out of NYC, but any way, it was a ball machine being used to pick the numbers. G5
Thanks G5 for making an attempt to verify the C4L drawing. Several years ago I also remember seeing the logo and everything you mentioned. I would wait but with the computer getting hot I was forced to move on.
I have two older computers that are not ideal for some modern day web sites.
So playing for the 2nd prize where no Cash Ball is needed should not be a problem ... but it is still a let down when hardly any Cash Balls that I am playing are not hitting. I can see if there were 20 Cash Balls ... then of course some Cash Balls are not going to hit that often.
However, when there are only four Cash Balls and a person is covering two (50%) of them ... is that a 'sign' from above to quit playing the lottery?
I mean if a person can not 'hit' that often with only four Cash Balls ... what are the chances of anything in a game with many more numbers?
Anyway, just goes to show how tough playing the lottery can be. Even if there were a jackpot lottery game with only four numbers ... a person might still lose money !!!
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Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Jul 9, 2020
C4L hit a milestone last night - it's 900th drawing since it all began way back in June of 2014. That doesn't mean a thing but I posted it anyway.
Here's some info about how the Cashball performed over those 900 drawings;
The #2 Cashball hit 236 times
The #1 Cashball hit 226 times
The #3 Cashball hit 222 times
The #4 Cashball hit 216 times
Here are the top three whiteballs performance over 900 drawings;
The #11 hit 89 times
The #'s 4 and 40 hit 88 times
The #'s 8 and 34 hit 86 times
Over the last 365 draws;
The #15 hit 41 times
The #14 hit 40 times
The #'s 50 and 57 hit 37 times
Since January 1st 2020
Numbers 21 and 22 have hit 23 times
Numbers 14 41 and 42 have hit 21 times G5
It's amazing to me how some close numbers tend to stay 'together' ... I have noticed this in other games with bouncing balls. Those ball numbers are bouncing all over the inside of the container yet you will see many numbers 'side by side' in the results after 20 days, 50 days or what you just posted.
For example, the #14 and #15 after 365 draws ... for 2020 the #21 and #22 are together as are #41 and #42.
Yet they are not together bouncing and flying around in the container but they seem to be able to come out more than the other numbers. What about the 'worst' numbers ... they are also in the container 'flying' around but many never seem to get out of the bottom ten numbers.
It's just an observation ... also seems to happen with the MM and PB numbers.
Those C4L numbers that I posted some days back ... #10, #11, #12, #13, #14 and #15 were in the 'top 10' after the last 50 draws ... another example.
I don't pay much attention to computer picks ... you can never be 100% sure about those.
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Quote: Originally posted by Concord on Jul 9, 2020
It's amazing to me how some close numbers tend to stay 'together' ... I have noticed this in other games with bouncing balls. Those ball numbers are bouncing all over the inside of the container yet you will see many numbers 'side by side' in the results after 20 days, 50 days or what you just posted.
For example, the #14 and #15 after 365 draws ... for 2020 the #21 and #22 are together as are #41 and #42.
Yet they are not together bouncing and flying around in the container but they seem to be able to come out more than the other numbers. What about the 'worst' numbers ... they are also in the container 'flying' around but many never seem to get out of the bottom ten numbers.
It's just an observation ... also seems to happen with the MM and PB numbers.
Those C4L numbers that I posted some days back ... #10, #11, #12, #13, #14 and #15 were in the 'top 10' after the last 50 draws ... another example.
I don't pay much attention to computer picks ... you can never be 100% sure about those.
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It amazes me as well.
It's also worth noting that numbers get hot and remain hot for months and even years. I've seen that happen in many different states games no matter what the matrix. I'm completely stumped by why it happens, I just know that it happens.
Speaking of "worst numbers" here's C4L's white ball bottom feeders in the last 900 drawings;
Numbers 2, 10, 29 have 64 hits in 900 drawings. #54 has 62, #52 has 58 and #33 has 54.
It would seem as if players should avoid playing those numbers but #'s 10, 29, 54 & 52 have been doing well recently. Go figure. G5